Fake Wing Sung 3008

[Parsimonious]

Just for fun, I thought I’d share my fake Wing Sung. It was the second fountain pen I bought. The first was a no name bamboo pen with a calligraphy nib. I was still pretty ignorant about pens. I didn’t know a Wing Sung from a Mont Blanc. I bought it because it was clear see through plastic and I thought that was cool. And, it was only two dollars. It was advertised on E-bay as a 3008, but obviously it isn’t. There is no identification at all on it. The nib is a Lamy style marked with an F.

When I got it it wrote really dry and scratchy. It wasn’t until I got some better pens that I realized how bad it was. When I did, I just set it aside. But, thanks to what I’ve learned here and from other sources on the web, I’ve gotten it working pretty well. All it took was spreading the tines of the nib with a shim for better flow and a little polishing and aligning and now it writes fine.

Here it is filled with Quink blue black.